The latest news from the Greater Worcester area

The Massachusetts man indicted with the murder of a 68-year-old man who was found dead in his basement in March is scheduled to return to court Tuesday for his arraignment.
Thomas Garon, 53, of Worcester,...

A Texas deputy sheriff coerced a Massachusetts girl he met on Minecraft into sending him sexually explicit images of herself, maintaining contact with him for five years, according to the Massachusetts

A Worcester man has been charged with the discovery of a body in a shallow grave in the basement of his home.
Thomas Garon had previously been charged with moving a dead body and misleading investigators...

The woman killed at a Worcester restaurant this week was attending a book club meeting and had just exited the bathroom when her ex-boyfriend allegedly stabbed her to death, court documents revealed Friday.
The...

Surveillance footage of the moment a woman was hit by a car in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been released.
Police responded to the area of 987 Main St. at 8:45 p.m. where a 71-year-old woman was suffering from...

A woman was hospitalized Sunday night after being struck by a vehicle in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Police responded to the area of 987 Main St. at 8:45 p.m. where a 71-year-old woman was suffering from serious...

A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in the strangulation death of a woman in his Leominster apartment.
James Vaillancourt faces 15 to 17 years in prison under...

Three months after he was shot in his native Dominican Republic, Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz says his life is forever changed.
In his first interview with an English language publication, Ortiz tells the...

A shooting at a Massachusetts bar has left one person dead and two others injured.
The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says the shooting happened just after 10 p.m. Friday at JC's Cafe in Fall River.

A man whose kayak overturned Saturday floated in four-foot seas for about three hours before Coast Guard crews found him off Gloucester, Massachusetts.
"A life jacket really saved this man's life," said...

Yemen's Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field Saturday, sparking huge fires at a vulnerable chokepoint for global energy...

One woman has died after she was ejected from the vehicle she was traveling in and then hit by another vehicle in a two-car accident on a Massachusetts highway late Friday night.
State police say 22-year-old...